Friday, October 31, 2025

Halloween 2025

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And so our beautiful October comes to a close.   Today is Halloween, and I live in a house that will have no trick-or-treaters.  We have dis...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

"Frankenstein" in the English Composition Classroom

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For those of you who are wonder when this blog became a teaching blog, I apologize.  It's an easy way for me to keep track of ideas that...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Environmental Resilience in Our Science and Our Literature (and Psyches)

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It's the kind of morning where I feel a bit fragmented--so let me collect the fragments to see if a mosaic emerges. --There was a Facebo...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Watching "Thriller" in the Composition Classroom

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Yesterday, my English 101 class continued its study of music, more specifically Michael Jackson's "Thriller."  I thought about...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Autumn Music, Autumn Writing

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I had a great English 101 class on Friday, writing with a variety of music playing, and I want to record what we did.  I wanted students to ...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Apples in the Composition Classroom

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It's been a good teaching week.  On Monday, on my way home from work, I bought a bushel of apples from my favorite orchard, Coston Farms...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Thinking about AI and Machine Learning and the Protestant Reformation on the Feast Day of Saint James

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This morning, I've been listening to podcasts--specifically, Ezra Klein's October 15 interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky about how Art...